From around the web…
August 15, 2008
- UC Berkeley professor asserts “There’s no question that we are in a mass extinction spasm right now”
- Brazilian government says pace of deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, may stabilize this year on tighter logging rules.
- Energy giant Shell was rebuked by Canada’s Advertising Standards Authority for greenwashing its controversial tar sands project and plan to build the second largest refinery in N. America for calling the projects “sustainable” and implying they would fight climate change.
- Water conservation policies in Long Beach, CA are working, as water use drops 13% from this time last year.
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